Pedestrians News

Toronto -
Getting people moving is a critical issue for virtually anyone living in a big city. For its latest Walrus Talks event, the magazine had plenty of transportation experts on hand, but a food security expert and even a futurist spoke too.

Captured on video by a passerby, the young bull had escaped from a livestock area in an industrial estate in Málaga, and caused a little chaos along the way before being wrestled to the ground by a passing pedestrian. Olé!

A Dutch company has come up with a way to help better protect cyclists in the event of a collision with a car. How it works is the car deploys an airbag from its exterior as the accident is about to occur.

Toronto -
Police are continuing to investigate a string of collisions that injured 11 pedestrians , including two who had been struck fatally, in separate crashes across the Greater Toronto Area, in a single day.

Fort Lee -
Over the decades a popular saying joked that some people are unable to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. Fast forward to 2012 and the saying refers to walking and texting at the same time.

Toronto -
It happens much too often, we're in a hurry and want to get to the other side of the road as quickly as possible. You step out onto the road thinking that you are safe when a car zooms by. For most that scare is enough to push you back to the sidewalk.

According to a new study, the number of pedestrians who have been killed or seriously injured while wearing headphones has tripled in the last six years. The study says that the numbers rose from 16 in 2004 to 47 in 2011.